Supported 3D Points & 3D Point Cloud Import/Export File Formats
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A well developed but little known aspect of Okino software is its end-to-end support for the conversion of 3D point files and point cloud data files.
This sub-pipeline allows 3D point file data to be imported then exported into a succinct set of industry standard point file formats as well as into a
series of common and generic 3D file formats (as outlined in the tables below).
3D Points & 3D Point Cloud Import File Converters
The following 3D Points & 3D Point Cloud import file formats are supported by Okino's
3D points file importer wizard.
Import File Format
Ext
Overview
ASCII digitizer point file
ASC
One set of points per line, each number delimited by spaces.
Comma separated data (import from spreadsheets)
CSV
.csv files are easily imported from most spreadsheet programs, including Microsoft Excel. It is the best and simplest method to get columnar data exported from a spreadsheet.
N-PTS 3D point file
NPTS.TXT
Ignores the first line, then parses remaining lines (delimited by spaces)
PTS 3D point file
PTS
PTS is a very common 3D points file format (the first 2 lines will be ignored)
ShapeGrabber 3PI
'3PI'
Native file format for ShapeGrabber 3D point scanning software.
Space delimited data
PRN
One set of points per line, each number delimited by spaces.
Tab delimited data
TXT
One set of points per line, each number delimited by tabs.
XYZ 3D point per line
XYZ
One set of XYZ points per line, arbitrary number delimiters.
XYZ 3D point and RGB color per line
XYZRGB
One set of XYZ points and RGB colors per line, arbitrary number delimiters.
Other Okino Import Converter Modules Which Support 3D Point Clouds
The following table lists the subset of Okino's 3D import converter modules which support the import of 3D points and 3D point clouds.
The following 3D Points & 3D Point Cloud export file formats are supported by Okino's
3D points file exporter module.
Export File Format
Ext
Overview
Comma separated data
CSV
.csv files are easily imported into most spreadsheet programs, including Microsoft Excel. It is the simplest method to get columnar data into a spreadsheet.
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
XLS
Microsoft Excel must be installed locally for this export option to function properly.
PTS 3D point file
PTS
PTS is a common 3D points file format.
ShapeGrabber 3PI file
'3PI'
Native file format for ShapeGrabber 3D point scanning software.
Space delimited data
PRN
One set of points per line, each number delimited by spaces.
Tab delimited data
TXT
One set of points per line, each number delimited by tabs.
Other Okino 3D Export Converter Modules Which Support 3D Point Clouds
The following table lists the subset of Okino's 3D export converter modules which support the export of 3D points and 3D point clouds.
NOTE: Each of the 3D exporter modules listed in the following table will only output the 3D point lists from a 'Point Set' primitive and not from polygon meshes, NURBS, curves or polylines data.
In other words, you need to import a 3D point set dataset only (and not 3D polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces or polyline data) before exporting into one of
the 3D exporter file formats listed in the table below or one of the dedicated 3D point file export file formats.
For example, if the current 3D scene contains a sphere then exporting to any of the file formats listed in the following table
will output a 3D sphere (as a polygon mesh) and not a simple 3D point file. On the flip side, the dedicated 3D point file exporters
can output 3D point sets from any source geometry, be they point sets, meshes, polylines or NURBS - refer to the Output points from these primitives
option defined on the exporter's documentation page.
3D Points & 3D Point Cloud Import File Converters